U+C1DE "쇞" Hangul Syllable Swaep Unicode Character
U+C1DE "쇞" Hangul Syllable Swaep is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㅅ” (s), the medial vowel “ㅙ” (wae), and the final consonant “ㅍ” (p). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which was encoded to facilitate efficient digital representation of Korean text by providing complete syllable blocks rather than relying solely on algorithmic composition of individual jamo letters. While “쇞” is a valid and correctly formed syllable according to Korean orthographic rules, it is extremely rare in actual language use, as the sound combination it represents does not occur in common Korean vocabulary or standard pronunciation, making it an obscure or unused entry in the standard Unicode repertoire for Hangul.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C1DE |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Swaep |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "쇄" U+C1C4 Hangul Syllable Swae "ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쇞 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쇞 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x87 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC1DE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C1DE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc1de |